How to format your references using the Cellulose citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cellulose. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Evans DAD (2006) Proterozoic low orbital obliquity and axial-dipolar geomagnetic field from evaporite palaeolatitudes. Nature 444:51–55

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu W, Südhof TC (2013) A neural circuit for memory specificity and generalization. Science 339:1290–1295

A journal article with 3 authors

Park CY, Shcheglovitov A, Dolmetsch R (2010) The CRAC channel activator STIM1 binds and inhibits L-type voltage-gated calcium channels. Science 330:101–105

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Levsky JM, Shenoy SM, Pezo RC, Singer RH (2002) Single-cell gene expression profiling. Science 297:836–840

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Toptygin IN (2015) Electromagnetic Phenomena in Matter. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Bilimoria KY, Minami CA, Mahvi DM (eds) (2015) Comparative Effectiveness in Surgical Oncology: Key Questions and How to Answer Them. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Fliss DM, Gil Z (2016) Open Surgical Approaches to the Paranasal Sinuses. In: Gil Z (ed) Atlas of Surgical Approaches to Paranasal Sinuses and the Skull Base. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 109–137

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Cellulose.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2014) Watch NASA’s “All About That Space” Parody Music Video. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-s-all-about-space-parody-music-video/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1993) HHS-Supported Research on Violence Prevention. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Lee S (2016) Data-driven computer vision for science and the humanities. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

(nyt) SK (2005) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Blast In Dagestan Kills 3. New York Times A8

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Evans 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Evans 2006; Xu and Südhof 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Xu and Südhof 2013)
Three or more authors: (Levsky et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cellulose
Abbreviation	Cellulose
ISSN (print)	0969-0239
ISSN (online)	1572-882X
Scope	Polymers and Plastics